On Oct 25, 9:25 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You want a "negative lookahead assertion" then: >
Now I feel dumb... I've seen the (?!...) dozen times in the doc but never figure out that it is what I'm looking for. So this one is the winner: s = re.search(r'create\s+or\s+replace\s+package\s+(?!body\s+)', txt, re.IGNORECASE) Thanks Peter and Marc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
